Not an Icon: Sheriff David Clarke Says Conyers Is Liberal Lap Dog Who Has Decimated Black Community

After House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi praised Michigan Democrat Rep. John Conyers as an icon, former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke said he had to set the record straight.

“John Conyers is NOT an American icon regardless of what Nancy Pelosi thinks. He, Elijah Cummings, John Lewis and others in the Congressional Black Caucus have been loyal lap dog votes for Democrat liberal policies that have DECIMATED the BLACK COMMUNITY,” he wrote Monday on Twitter.

John Conyers is NOT an American icon regardless of what Nancy Pelosi thinks. He, Elijah Cummings, John Lewis and others in the Congressional Black Caucus have been loyal lap dog votes for Democrat liberal policies that have DECIMATED the BLACK COMMUNITY. https://t.co/NjV9Zokky5

Pelosi was defending Conyers amid allegations of sexual misconduct against him. Conyers, 88, stepped down as the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee in response to the allegations, but has said he will not give up his seat in Congress.

“John Conyers is an icon in our country,” Pelosi said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” She added, “He has done a great deal to protect women.”

Last week, Clarke had fired off another angry tweet at the support given Conyers.

I am NOT AT ALL surprised that carnival barker Maxine Waters last week praised colleague John Conyers as having respect for women. I find it more surprising that she found time to stop her inane “Impeach 45” crusade to do it. WHAT A BUNCH OF BUFFOONS. pic.twitter.com/np4dx2C7Uo

“I am NOT AT ALL surprised that carnival barker Maxine Waters last week praised colleague John Conyers as having respect for women. I find it more surprising that she found time to stop her inane ‘Impeach 45’ crusade to do it. WHAT A BUNCH OF BUFFOONS,” Clarke tweeted.

As reported by The Western Journal, Clarke has previously indicted the Congressional Black Caucus, of which both Waters and Conyers are members, as one reason urban black Americans have not achieved success.

It is only about the voters when the democrats want to keep their power.. Other than that they could care less about the voters!!!! Stop voting for a party that only wants to keep you under control!!!! Vote based on the policy and issues not the party!!!!

The @OfficialCBC used all of their “oppression chips” trying to destroy Trump, and failed. Now they’re hoping for a 2nd go-round with “icon chips” to convince Americans their tax dollars are at work paying for #polypervertist politicians like Conyers, guess what…it’s to late. pic.twitter.com/19iE62h0NY

“The CBC has been appointed gatekeepers by the liberal white establishment to keep blacks tethered to the plantation of liberal ideology and to go after anyone who dare escape,” Clarke wrote earlier this month in an op-ed for TownHall.

Clarke, a senior adviser for pro-Trump super PAC America First Action, said the CBC’s opposition to school choice efforts championed by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is typical of the bad policies pushed by the liberal Democrat caucus.

“There’s a reason why Democratic politicians are against it: they recoil at the thought of empowering parents or anybody else. Empowered individuals do not need big government or its supporters,” he said.

Clarke said that voters can end the game played by the CBC.

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“Come election time, the black community needs to send a message to the CBC that they won’t be exploited any longer. President Trump successfully appealed to black voters in the 2016 election, with an increased number of black Americans voting for him while others helped him win by staying home. Hopefully that pattern continues in the 2018 midterms,” he wrote.